OpenFolk
A messenger-style web app (phone first) for running several AI coding agents on your own computers.
Every bot is a colleague with its own picture, name, role, tone and model, and works in a fixed folder,
for example one bot per repository. Bots keep working when the app is closed and notify you by push when they
are done or need an approval.
OpenFolk is not an IDE and is not built on one: at your desk you keep working in VS Code, Cursor or the terminal.
OpenFolk is a web app of its own that carries the same agents on when you are away from the machine, and hands a chat
back to the IDE when you ask.
Bots run on the Claude Agent SDK (Claude Code) by default. A bot or a single conversation can also use
OpenAI Codex or, through the Agent Client Protocol (ACP), Cursor, GitHub Copilot,
Google Antigravity or OpenCode. The UI is available in English and German.
Besides the browser (installable as PWA) there are desktop apps for Windows, Linux and macOS (Electron,
desktop/) and apps for iOS and Android (Capacitor, mobile/), all around the same web app.
The relay never sees model credentials and stores no messages. The backend connects outbound, so nothing has to
be opened on your router. End-to-end encryption is on from the first start, so the relay only sees routing
information. Optionally,
Tailscale restricts the backend connection further (docs/tailscale.md).
Status: early open-source release. The backend is developed and tested on Windows 11 and runs as a
Linux container (docs/running.md). Machine control is configurable (same page, "Machine settings"): waking
via Wake-on-LAN, a wake service or your own command, shutting down on Windows, macOS and Linux. A woken machine
runs its bots without anyone signing in on Windows and Linux; a Mac needs a sign-in, and the automatic sign-in
of the desktop session is Windows-only. The relay runs anywhere Node 22 or Docker runs.
Try it in two minutes: install the desktop app from the releases
(Windows, macOS, Linux) and choose "Start on this computer", or from source with Node 22:
git clone https://github.com/OpenFolk/OpenFolk.git openfolk && cd openfolk && npm install && npm start
The app opens in the browser, walks you through signing in to Claude Code and creating the first bot, and pairs your
phone with a QR code. Everything else is in Getting started.
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